Masters Theses
Masters Theses from 2017
LEADING SAFETY INDICATORS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: THE CASE OF TENNESSEE, Noor Suheil Akroush
Toward the Understanding of Irradiation Effects on Concrete: The Irradiated Minerals, Aggregates, and Concrete Database, Mustafa Hameed Alsaid
Reducing Wait Time Prediction In Hospital Emergency Room: Lean Analysis Using a Random Forest Model, Gajanan Arha
Analysis of NFIRS Data for Sensitivity to Foreclosure and Other Select Features, Alexander Meadows Asbury
Influence of Environmental Conditions and Inundation History on Bacterial Diversity of Salt Marsh Soils in Southern Louisiana, Brandon M. Bagley
CONTROLS ON MICROBIAL EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE FRESH WATERS, Abigail Van Buren Barrett
PROTEIN, METHIONINE, AND CYSTEINE UPREGULATION IN PHASEOLUS VULGARIS ‘BLACK TURTLE BEAN’ SEEDS THROUGH SULFUR FERTILIZATION AT V2 AND R2 STAGES OF GROWTH, Hannah Paige Barry
Design and Evaluation of a Sub-1-Volt Read Flash Memory in a Standard 130 Nanometer CMOS Process, David Andrew Basford
A Bug’s Life: Integration of Anaerobic Digestion and Bioelectrochemical Systems for Enhanced Energy Recovery from Wastewater Solids and Other Waste Substrates, Jeff Ryan Beegle
Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Carbon Storage and Optimal Provision of Carbon Storage, Amine Mohamed Ben Ayara
Effects of attachment and self-esteem on perceptions of infidelity in gay men., Shannon R. Bierma
Relationship of observed parlor practices and producer attitudes with bulk tank somatic cell counts in the Southeast USA, Chandler Lauren Moats Blakely
Battery Energy Storage Emulation for Power System Applications, Jessica Danielle Boles
Practical Methods for Optimizing Equipment Maintenance Strategies Using an Analytic Hierarchy Process and Prognostic Algorithms, Gregory Michael Bosco
3D Printed Electronics, Mwamba Bowa
A Practical Realization of a Return Map Immune Lorenz Based Chaotic Stream Cipher in Circuitry, Daniel Robert Brown
Incentive Payments for Planting Upland Bird Habitat Field Borders in Tennessee, Nathaniel Scott Bruce
HUDSON HEALTH CORRIDOR: REDEFINING THE WORKFORCE HOUSING COMMUNITY, Brianne Michelle Burdy
Cation Exchange Processes Involving the Agricultural Antibiotic Tylosin in Soil and Soil Minerals, Jaime Jacinda Call
Do you see what I mean? The role of visual speech information in lexical representations, Ryan Andrew Cannistraci
Optimizing Soybean (Glycine max L.) Yield with Nitrogen and Sulfur Applications, Kacey A. Cannon
BAT POPULATION STATUS AND ROOST SELECTION OF TRI-COLORED BATS IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK IN THE ERA OF WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME, Grace Marie Carpenter
Talking Stone: Cherokee Syllabary Inscriptions in Dark Zone Caves, Beau Duke Carroll
Effects of Distance, Antenna, and Channel on an Ultra Wide Band Location System, and Quantifying them to Increase Accuracy, Nicholas Alexander Cavopol
Identity by the Numbers: Cancerous Lesions and Likelihood Ratios, William Daniel Cawley
INTEGRAL PERSPECTIVES, Henry Brian Cheek
Effect of Different Cover Crop Species on Crop Production and Soil Health, Mingwei Chu
“Everything seemed very queer”: Divergent Temporalities of Normative Relations in Mrs. Dalloway, Crystal Brooke Clark
A GaN-Based Synchronous Rectifier with Reduced Voltage Distortion for 6.78 MHz Wireless Power Applications, Spencer Pierce Cochran
A Meta-Analysis of the Facial Feedback Literature: Effects of Facial Expressions on Emotional Experience are Small and Variable, Nicholas Alvaro Coles
Influence of Planter Width, Planting Speed, and Perimeter-to-area ratio on Field Efficiency for Row Crop Planters, Colburn James Condra
Alternatives to Conventional Nitrogen Fertilization on Tall Fescue and Bermudagrass, Michael Dereck Corbin
Effect of the mutant Danbaekkong or stem termination alleles on soybean seed protein concentration, amino acid composition, and other seed quality and agronomic traits, Mia Justina Cunicelli
OIL AND WATER: CORPORATE INTEREST AND RISK COMMUNICATION PRECEDING THE DEEPWATER HORIZON DISASTER, Joshua Seth Cunningham
The Relationship of Hypnotizability and Empathy: A Replication and Extension Study, Morgun Elliot Custer
Coaching age-group swimming: Contradicting perceptions and practices, Samuel Dwyer Davy
Analyzing the Utilization and Trade of Distillers’ Dried Grains with Solubles, Maria Celeste De Matteis
Using Naturalistic Data for Bicycle Safety Analysis: An Application of CyclePhilly Data to Assess Wrong-Way Riding, Nirbesh Dhakal
INSTITUTIONS OF TRANSFORMATION, Anthony Michael Dienst
Modeling of Dislocation Channel Formation and Evolution in Irradiated Metals, Peter James Doyle
The Sacred and the Mundane, Catherine Elizabeth Dozier
Food Justice and Practices in the Five Points Community of Knoxville, Tennessee: A Survey of Residents Living in an Urban Food Desert, Sylvia Isabel Duluc-Silva
Les auteures surréalistes : French and Francophone Women Surrealist Writers -- Joyce Mansour, Valentine Penrose and Gisèle Prassinos, Maitland Sierra Dunwoody
The Application of Mass Spectrometry Techniques for the Benefit of Tungsten Impurity Transport Research and Nuclear Fusion, Jonah David Duran
Efficient Simulation Of A Simple Evolutionary System, Mahendra Duwal Shrestha
A Cost-Differential Analysis of Local Soybean Processing in East Tennessee: Roast or Crush?, Rachel Lauren Eatherly
Tiled DANNA: Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array Scaled Across Multiple Chips, Patricia Jean Eckhart
Support for Open Access in the Humanities: An Analysis of Current Approaches, Abbey Kayleen Elder
Effects of Synthetic Turf Systems With and Without a Shock Pad on Lower Extremity Biomechanics During a 90° Cutting Movement With Differing Approach Velocities, Thomas Kenneth Elvidge
Bats Roosting in Buildings in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ecology, Human Dimensions, and Management Implications, Kirstin Emily Fagan
Examining the Effects of Frustration on Working Memory Capacity in an Emerging Adult Sample, Jonathan Parks Fillauer
Estimating Postmortem Intervals of Human Remains Recovered in Mid-Western Waterways: A Test of Terrestrial and Aquatic Body Scoring Methods, Amanda Rose Fink
The Roles Of Attention, Awareness, And Memory In Evaluative Conditioning, Katherine Anne Fritzlen
Logistical Bodies of Fulfillment, Michael Steven Frush
High-current integrated battery chargers for mobile applications, Gabriel Alejo Gabian
Processing-property-structure relationships of carbonaceous materials derived from renewable lignin products, Valerie García-Negrón
Stressing Out: Dynamics Of Chromatin Insulator Body Formation In Eukaryotes Under Osmotic Stress, Shannon Marie Garland
“This is a woman speaking”: The Feminist Writing of Three French Journalists, Holly Anne Gary
Convective Mode Climatology of Tennessee Tornado Events and Effect on National Weather Service Warning Processes, Kelly Nicole Gassert
Probing Pulse Structure at the Spallation Neutron Source via Polarimetry Measurements, Connor Miller Gautam
Sensor Technologies for Nuclear Physics Applications, Corey Gilbert
Development of Nuclear UnderGround Engineered Test Surrogates for Technical Nuclear Forensics Exploitation, Robert Boone Gilbreath
Selbstinszenierung im Deutschrap: Konstruktion von Identität und Authentizität im Subgenre des Gangstaraps am Beispiel von Kollegah und Xatar, Sladana Gnjatic
Evaluation of Hall’s Panicgrass (Panicum hallii Vasey) as a Model System for Genetic Modification of Recalcitrance in Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum (L.)), Joshua Nathaniel Grant
VIABILITY OF ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR PRODUCTION AND TOOLING APPLICATIONS: A DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUSINESS CASE, Christopher Charles Griffin
Wild Turkey Resource Use on Food-subsidized Landscapes and the Relationship between Nesting Chronology and Gobbling Activity, Aaron David Griffith
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Predictive Modeling of Body Disposal Sites, Annemarie Catherine Gundel
Visual Rhetoric and Semiotics in Scenic Design: A Pedagogical Analysis, Chris Guzzardo
The Relationships between Self-Compassion, Self-Blame, Disengagement Coping, PTSD, and Depression in Women Following Adult Sexual Assault, Lauren Ann Hamrick
In Service Performance Evaluation of Erosion Prevention Sediment Control Devices, Ali Riza Hangul
Beyond Black and White: Visualizing Cultural Identity Amidst Racial Anxiety and Nativism in American Modernist Novels, Emily Moore Harrison
Design of an Integrated Silicon Carbide Nonlinear-carrier PWM Controller for Boost Converter Applications, Richard Kyle Harris
Fundamental Limit of Analog Multiplication in Linear Discriminant Classifier, Md Munir Hasan
A Critical Perspective on Scalian-Originalism’s Interpretation of the First Amendment’s Freedom of Speech Clause, Shiela M. Hawkins
Aspects of the Physiological and Behavioral Defense Adaptations of the Mountain Madtom (Noturus eleutherus), Meredith Leigh Hayes
Characterization of Reactor Background Radiation at HFIR for the PROSPECT Experiment, Blaine Alexander Heffron
Avian Ecology During Oak Savanna and Woodland Restoration in the Mid-South, Christine Ann Henderson
The New SUB Urban, Brad Lee Herr
Perceptions and Expectations of College Students Choosing to Become Peer Mentors, Matthew Hicks
Development of Methods for Testing Alterations in Flight Behavior of Cry1Fa-Resistant and Susceptible Spodoptera frugiperda in Response to Feeding on Cry1Fa Protoxin, Lucas Isaac Hietala
Pro Bono Publico: The Architect as Developer, Daniel Hurshel Hodge
Non-Volatile Particle Penetration Efficiencies: UTRC Line Loss Model Validation, Brandon Craig Hoffman
“Get Your Geek On”: Online and Offline Representations of Audiotopia within the GeekyCon Community, Sarah Frances Holder
Mixed-Mode Dynamic Crack Propagation using the Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Russell Thomas Hollman
The Influence of Body Size on Sexual Dimorphism, Haley Elizabeth Horbaly
Automated Program Profiling and Analysis for Managing Heterogeneous Memory Systems, Adam Palmer Howard
Evaluation of the Performance of TN Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence Online Training Courses, Amal S. Humidat
Spatially Explicit Population Estimates of the Florida Black Bear, Jacob Michael Humm
Understanding social identity through children’s drawings: Where is your happy place?, Elizabeth Hampton Hurst
3D Experimental Quantification of Fabric and Fabric Evolution of Sheared Granular Materials Using Synchrotron Micro-Computed Tomography, Wadi Habeeb Imseeh
Relative abundance of forest songbirds on Cherokee National Forest and the surrounding southern Appalachian region based on analysis of North American breeding bird survey and US Forest Service point-count data, Andrew Travis Isenhower
Sensation Seeking Among Experienced Whitewater Kayakers, Lisa Marie Ivester
Operational Jakarta: The problem of representation, Kevin Patrick Jeffers
Development of Microfluidic Platforms for Studies of Cellular Organization in Escherichia Coli, Anna Dawn Jennings
Reproduction and bioconfinement of miR156 transgenic switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.), Chelsea Renai Johnson
Exploring Adversity And The Potential For Growth Among Female Ironman Competitors, Emily Joann Johnson
Academic-Related Perceptions, Beliefs, and Strategies of Undergraduate Agricultural Students, Samantha Lynn Jordan